ITEM OVERVIEW
This book—on the historic resistance of GIs and veterans against the Vietnam War—is vital for understanding the overstretched U.S. military and opposition to the invasion and occupation of Iraq among soldiers and their families today. Cortright (enlisted in the U.S. Army from 1968-1971) details the myriad ways of resistance (from death by "fragging" of 87 officers, to the over 250 GI "alternative" newspapers), and details the race and class basis of this. A truly inspiring, and exhaustive, piece of historical research and narrative. With a new introduction by Howard Zinn.
"This fine study, combining scrupulous scholarship with the sharp insights of a highly informed participant-observer, was the first to explore in depth the processes of disaffection, organized opposition, and resistance that undermined U.S. military forces attacking Indochina, and their far-reaching consequences. It remains today the most penetrating and revealing investigation and analysis of these remarkable developments, with current implications that are all too evident." --Noam Chomsky
"An invaluable account of a uniquely American movement that helped to bring the Vietnam War to an end. This book restores an important chapter to our living history." --Tod Ensign, author, America's Military Today: The Challenge of Militarism and director of Citizen Soldier
"[A]n exhaustive account of rebellion in all the armed forces, not only in Vietnam but throughout the world...Perhaps Cortright's most important conclusion is that most of the GI resistance came not from draftees 'but from volunteers from working class backgrounds.'" --New York Review of Books
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